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hardPressed poetry 2012Catherine Walsh's new book Astonished Birds Cara, Jane, Bob and James moves on from Optic Verve, differently

Optic Verve

Paperback, 132pp, 9x6ins, £9.95 / $17/Euro 15 ISBN 9781848610798

Optic Verve is the latest long poem by Catherine Walsh, perhaps Ireland's most radical experimental woman poet.Download a sampler PDF of work from this book."It seems a shame that many Irish poetry readers are unaware of Catherine Walsh's very obvious gifts. Her brilliant punning, the way she assembles disjointed, yet perfectly rendered fragments of Dublin argot and her ability to imply simultaneous narratives mark her out from her contemporaries." —Dónal Moriarty: The Art of Brian Coffey"Walsh's work subsequent to Making Tents shatters practical language in its rejection of transparent or normative discourse. (Her) disjunctive, disorientating poetry acknowledges language as a medium which constructs our relation to others, to objects, to ourselves. Her poetic subjects are always Idir Eatortha, caught 'between two worlds'". —Alex Davis: A Broken LineOrder from Shearsman online store or from us.

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Shearsman Books: 2005. A4. 82 pp. pbk. ISBN 1 85298 017 6.Euro 13.50 Long poem in three sections. Distributed in Ireland by hardPressed poetry.From the cover:It seems a shame that many Irish poetry readers are unaware of Catherine Walsh's very obvious gifts. Her brilliant punning, the way she assembles disjointed, yet perfectly rendered fragments of Dublin argot and her ability to imply simultaneous narratives mark her out from her contemporaries. Dónal Morairty: The Art of Brian Coffey Alex Davis: A Broken Line Claire Bracken: 'Each nebulous atom in between': reading liminality - Irish studies, postmodern feminism and the poetry of Catherine Walsh in New Voices in Irish Criticism 5Short Stories North & South: 1989. A5. 24 pp. pbk.. ISBN 0-907562-54-X.Scarce: prices on application.Walsh's work subsequent to Making Tents shatters practical language in its rejection of transparent or normative discourse.(Her) disjunctive, disorientating poetry acknowledges language as a medium which constructs our relation to others, to objects, to ourselves. Her poetic subjects are always Idir Eatortha, caught "between two worlds"Walsh's poetry attempts to move away from a position of hierarchical domination and construct a poetic space of non-mastery and heterogeneity.Thus, Walsh's poetry, unlike Derrida's theory, allows for speaking positions for women within the liminal space. However, these positions are always temporary, facilitating the articulation of many different subjective voices across a range of many different spatial settings.Definitely not prose.'Of the newer poets, she's unique; she's also amongst the best.' David Miller.'the common phrase, finely balanced and razor sharp, each echo cared for' Ric Caddel.PitchPig Press: 1994. 23 x 14 cm. 48 pp. pbk. ISBN 1 85298 017

6. Scarce: prices on application.A poem in four parts.'worth reading not least to watch thought select which parts of itself to display in language' Tom Raworth.'a variety of complex tonalities too rarely found in the more monolithic ironized play of many experimentalists' Dr. Tuma (oc. cit.). Idir Eatortha and Making Tents